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Learning from Each Other

An excerpt from the new book Interface Design for Learning offers strategies for supporting community-building, collaborative learning, and successful social interaction.
Article - Dorian Peters - June 10, 2014 - 1 Comments

How to Pitch to Your Stakeholders like Don Draper

UX professionals can learn a lot about how to deliver a forceful, commanding, and compelling pitch from Mad Men's Don Draper.
Article - Joseph Dickerson - June 5, 2014 - 1 Comments

Gaining UX Insight through Dyads and Triads

Studying small groups of friends or family using your product in a familiar setting can yield qualitative insights that improve your user experience.
Article - James Breeze, Gowri Penkar - April 21, 2014 - 2 Comments

Designing Effective Experiences for Financial Services

Helping people make good financial decisions requires design that accounts for loss aversion and the salience of losses.
Article - Colleen Roller - April 16, 2014 - 2 Comments

The Design for Experience Awards Site is Live

The official website for the international Design for Experience awards is up and running!
Article - UX Magazine Staff - March 31, 2014 - 0 Comments

What Prevents Users from Making Better Financial Decisions?

Making sound financial choices requires people to behave in ways that challenge many of our tried-and-true experience design methods.
Article - Colleen Roller - March 31, 2014 - 3 Comments

Internet of Things and the Work of the Hands

Looking to philosopher Albert Borgmann and the wood-burning stove, we see that the Internet of Things must create meaningful interactions in order to succeed.
Article - Thomas Wendt - March 12, 2014 - 3 Comments

How to Help Your Users Take Action

Accounting for cue, reaction, evaluation, ability, and timing in your design process can help spur your users into action.
Article - Stephen Wendel - March 3, 2014 - 1 Comments

ONE Robot: Designed by the autistic community for autistic users

Working directly with autistic users and their support communities provided the design cues necessary to create a robot that helps its users interact with the world.
Article - Jalali Hartman - February 28, 2014 - 0 Comments

Everything I Really Need to Know about User Experience I Learned in Sunday School

Childhood lessons in good behavior and solid decision-making can be invaluable assets to UX practitioners.
Article - John Boykin - February 24, 2014 - 3 Comments

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